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Invisibility by Design : Women and Labor in Japan's Digital Economy /

"INVISIBILITY BY DESIGN examines Japanese women's Internet-based entrepreneurship in the late 1990s. Disadvantaged by a long recession, and entrenched in a historically patriarchal and discriminatory labor marketplace, many Japanese women in the late 1990s and early 2000s turned to Interne...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lukács, Gabriella (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction. Labor and Gender in Japan's Digital Economy
  • The Digital Economy
  • Gender in the Digital Economy
  • Labor in the Digital Economy
  • Methodological Considerations I: Techno-social Assemblages and Technological Duplicities
  • Methodological Considerations II: Virtual and Actual Selves
  • Disidentifications: Women, Photography, and Everyday Patriarchy
  • The "Girly" Photography Trend
  • Family Albums as Projects of Disidentification
  • Self-Portraiture and Disidentification
  • The Digital and the Analog in Projects of Disidentification
  • Conclusion: Photography and Feminism in Recessionary Japan
  • The Labor of Cute: Net Idols in the Digital Economy
  • The Net Idol Phenomenon
  • The Production of Cute and Social Reproduction
  • Human Capital Development in the Digital Economy
  • Conclusion: The Labor of Cute as Invisible Labor
  • Career Porn: Blogging and the Good Life
  • Blogging Platforms and the Enclosure of Affective Labor
  • Blog Tutorials as Career Porn
  • Blogging, DIY Careers, and Invisible Labor
  • Conclusion: Blogging and the Good Life
  • Work Without Sweating: Amateur Traders and the Financialization of Daily Life
  • From Savings to Online Trading
  • Women's Paths to Trading
  • Women's Aspirations Beyond Trading
  • Conclusion: Amateur Trading and Affective Labor
  • Dreamwork: Cell Phone Novelists, Affective Labor, and Precarity Politics
  • Cell Phone Novelists and Affective Labor
  • Dreamwork on Magic Island
  • Cell Phone Novels and Precarity Politics
  • Conclusion: Dreamwork.